23 Facts About Maina-Miriam Munsky

Maina-Miriam Munsky was born on Meina Munsky: 24 September 1943 - 26 October 1999 and was a German New Realist artist.

Maina-Miriam Munsky came to prominence in West Berlin during the 1970s with a series of "larger than life" paintings of births, abortions and surgical procedures.

Meina Munsky was born the second of her parents' two daughters in Wolfenbuttel at the height of the Second World War.

Oskar Maina-Miriam Munsky, her father, was a young architect who had studied with Hans Poelzig and worked during the 1930s on several high-profile public projects such as the Reichswerke Hermann Goring and the rebuild of the Olypmpia Stadium underground station.

Maina-Miriam Munsky died, probably in a prisoner, of war camp when his daughter was an infant.

Maina Maina-Miriam Munsky concluded her own schooling in March 1962 when she left the Anna-Vorwerk-Oberschule with a Realschulabschluss.

In 1963, after falling in love with a professor at the HBK in Braunschweig, Maina-Miriam Munsky became pregnant and had an abortion which necessitated a trip to Amsterdam, since having an abortion in Germany would have created a risk of criminal charges.

Maina-Miriam Munsky studied with Ugo Capocchini and emerged with an Italian qualification as a primary school teacher.

Maina-Miriam Munsky changed to dressing exclusively black and changed the name on her birth certificate from "Meina Munsky" to "Maina-Miriam Munsky".

That same year Maina-Miriam Munsky became a member of the German Artists' Association : she exhibited at the associations' annual exhibitions till 1984.

Maina-Miriam Munsky was one of the founding members of the Berlin Aspect Group which existed between 1972 and 1978.

Maina-Miriam Munsky's contribution had already been commissioned: the exhibition jury decided to remove it just before the exhibition catalogue was finalised for the printers.

Dr Cacilia Rentmeister which was publisher in March 1977 Maina-Miriam Munsky was uncompromisingly supportive of the women's movement:.

Between 1979 and 1981 the itinerant exhibition "feministische kunst internationaal" took place in museums in the Netherlands: several Maina-Miriam Munsky painting were included.

Maina-Miriam Munsky was just 56 when she died in 1999 as a result of her alcohol intake.

In 2013 a first inventory of Maina-Miriam Munsky's work was compiled by Jan Schuler and published under the title "Die Angst wegmalen" by the Berlin-based Poll Art Fountation, who had represented the artist while she was alive.

Maina-Miriam Munsky prepared her works by creating from which she then transferred to canvas with the help of a Slide projector.

Maina-Miriam Munsky was indeed not a photorealist in the usual sense, but oriented herself towards "new reality", applying a "verismo" approach that referenced the 1920s.

Maina-Miriam Munsky became known through her social-psychological presentations in these subject areas.

Maina-Miriam Munsky impressively "documented" with sober precision the potential for photorealism from the delivery room.

Maina-Miriam Munsky started producing pictures of births in 1967, which violated a taboo and met with resistance.

Maina-Miriam Munsky painted these early depictions of embryos, bodily hints, photographs and birth scenes applying a soft flowing style captured in lattice-structures, scaffolds, cages and lines.

Maina-Miriam Munsky was able to work in the delivery room, photographing during births and birth-related operations.